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Stamets@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

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Stamets@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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  • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Gotta dot your i’s

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      minimum

      Also actual gothic script provides tiny clues, ligatures, that make it slightly easier to read.

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        miuinunu?

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        thats actually kinda crazy how much more readable that makes it

        …still not super easy tho lol

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          Also helps that they connected their letters properly. The op is not actually a real word it’s just a bunch of undotted i’s

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          As the other user said, my example is (still) not a written one.

          I think gothic script developed because of the writing implements they used, but the wirter had lots of possibilities to make it unambiguous.

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          That’s not really how people wrote, that’s still made to confuse the reader.

          https://fonts.google.com/specimen/UnifrakturMaguntia?preview.text=minimum+&categoryFilters=Feeling%3A%2FExpressive%2FVintage%3BAppearance%3A%2FTheme%2FBlackletter

          here’s an example

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            Noone would have written like that. That is a printing typeface. Handwritten fraktur is very different. Anyway the writing in OPs picture is medieval, while the printing typeface is obviously early modern, 17th-19th cenutry.

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              I know, but it’s hard to find a good example with exactly that text. And I have no clue where I’ve hidden my calligraphy stuff. At least it doesn’t contain a lowercase s, so it should be somewhat fine.

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                And I have no clue where I’ve hidden my calligraphy stuf

                Le excuse maxima

                What’d you need “calligraphy stuff” for?

                I really haven’t written jack shit in years except on digital so excuse the shittiness but I think that shittiness makes it a rather good example of casual writing.

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                  Now what exactly does this prove? That a non historic writing utensil in a completely different typeface doesn’t look at all like Fraktur? I mean, yes, you’re right.

                  https://youtube.com/watch/5UPC60e3Lsw

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                    I thought the discussion was about legibility in general, not the exact typeface. My bad.

                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_(palaeography)

                    Since the typeface is standardised it highlights the issue, whereas when you write manually, you can use slightly different spacing (like making the u wider) so it’s more easily legible.

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      I just recently learned that this is the historical reason why eyes have dots.

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      naı reallι
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